Honda cars set testing pace

Today’s test session at the Hungaroring was very promising for the Honda cars.

Fri 02.05.14, 2:02PM

Gabriele Tarquini (1:50.995), Mehdi Bennani (1:51.064) and Tiago Monteiro (1:51.276) set the three fastest laps in the 30-minute session, while the fourth Civic of local hero Norbert Michelisz was placed in fifth (1:51.433).

Tom Chilton clocked the fourth fastest time (1:51.349) at the wheel of his Chevrolet RML Cruze, while the first of the Citroën cars was Jose María López’s, only in seventh position (1:51.453). Hugo Valente’s Chevrolet (1:51.589) and the other two Citroëns of Yvan Muller (1:51.738) and Sébastien Loeb (1:51.789) filled the positions from seventh to ninth. The LADA Granta of Rob Huff (1:51.851) rounded off the top-ten.

With ten cars covered by only eighth tenths, this was the closest session since the beginning of the season.